As Green Map’s Director, I am occasionally invited to project launches and opportunities to present Green Map to different audiences. This spring, there have been many!

Starting in mid April, I traveled to Bucharest Romania, where Goodartofnoon Cultural Association’s dynamic young team published their first Green Map following a year of intensive development. With 100,000 copies and a great distribution plan (thousands will arrive with the national newspaper, which committed to a green column each week for a year; within the Romanian edition of National Geographic along with an 8-page article; and though the city-wide Museum Night), there’s much excitement about expansion and inclusion. I helped develop their schools Green Map project and the team’s outreach effort. read more »

Learn Green NYC is a new coalition of sustainability professionals in education, design and enterprise in support of youth engagement, healthy learning environments and community-based approaches to low impact, high quality living. Green Map's Director has been part of the coalition since the very beginning!

Last week, Learn Green NYC hosted an invitational event for NYC youth and concerned adults at Teacher's College Columbia University, as part of the Schools, Food and Community conference sponsored by the Baum Forum.

This Youth Forum was the first of a series of Learn Green NYC programs to engage youth as community sustainability leaders throughout the city.read more »

"Green Map Impacts" focuses on various kinds of case studies which gave "Actual impacts" or "Influences" on communities by making Green Maps. These unique case studies were picked up from Japan and the world.
We hope that it is one of the most useful tool in your Green Map activities.

Book Title: "Green Map Impacts--Green Map changes the community!"
Format: A4 size, 40 p. full colored
Language: Japanese (It will be translated into English)
Publisher: Chubu Recycle, Inc.
Planning & Editing: Green Map Aichi + Green Map Japan, Inc.
Cooperation: Green Map System, Inc.
Audience:
Existing map makers, city planners, community leaders, or people who want to work for the community....read more »

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Baltimore Green Map introductory website at www.baltogreenmap.org. We are using 48 of the V3 icons and presenting all an opportunity to Nominate a Site. An interview with Wendy Brawer and me (Baltimore Project Director) will be aired on our local public radio station in time to be part of the Baltimore Festival of Maps. We'll post that as soon as available. Thanks to Wendy for years of encouragement and to our hero Thomas for responding so quickly to suggestions as we deployed the beta Online Green Map as part of our site.
Janet

We have started to add sites to the OpenGreenMap! Exciting to be part of testing this new G R E A T initiative.

See you out there in cyberspace!

We will not make a paper map after all. Maybe a poster for display and PR, but the rest will be webbased.

Please send us comments, here or on www.rocklandgreenmap.org!

Thanks
Anna

Ode is a print and online publication about positive news, about the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better.

Diane Daniel on the April 2008 issue of Ode Magazine features our Green Map movement. "If you’re searching for a green oasis in urban Jakarta, Indonesia, or a place to compost your banana peel in lower Manhattan, a Green Map can show you the way."

The magazine is on the newsstands now or click here to read the online version.

A one of its kind environmental conference (18-19 May 2008) is taking place in Jerusalem initiated by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and supported by the Jerusalem Municipality, The Ministry of Environmental Protection and a variety of other bodies.

The two day event will bring together national and international speakers to discuss a range of pressing environmental issues, and examine Israel's current environmental situation.

The Jerusalem Green Map will be well represented at the conference with computer work stations to enable visitors to search the website (Hebrew and English), unique tours "in the footsteps of the Jerusalem Green Map", Green Map Systems material on offer and more!read more »

More than 2000 Houston Greenmaps were handed out at the Gulf Coast Green and Houston green Expo between April 3rd and April 6th!

March 25th is a great time for us to reflect on the many things we have accomplished together as Green Mapmakers, for our communities and our planet. We all share our perceptions of what is happening right now and help everyone get involved in shaping a more hopeful and greener future for all.

Special thanks to all our supporters and the hundreds of people who make Green Map a vital resource for vibrant communities!

Over the last few months, Green Map System has been taking part in competitions that address non-profit needs in a new way. They have incorporated social networking so that every participant has the chance to benefit, even if they don't win the top prize. Here's what I like about it:

Unlike a regular grant proposal, our proposals are not expressed privately to a foundation. Plans are shared openly, so the potential to reach new supporters and participants is greater.

In many cases, people can comment on your entry and help to improve it! Try it out - you can comment on our Ashoka Changemakers Geotourism Challenge entry until 16 April. Your comments will help the judges choose our project as a finalist. read more »

３月１３日（木）
　公民館に自分たちの総合学習で行ったマップ作りの説明と掲示していただくお礼を伝えるため、公民館にあいさつにでかけました。公民館長さんから、取り組みへのお褒めの言葉と激励の言葉をいただき、緊張している子もたくさんいました。また、地元の情報誌（瀬戸内タイムズ）の取材もあり、近日中に発行される情報誌に掲載されることになりました。
　地図やみんなが描いた絵などは、これから公民館のもっとみんなに見てもらえるところに掲示されることになります。クラス代表の芳岡さんのあいさつ後、記念品もいただきました。read more »

３月１２日（水）
　公民館に掲示していただくものを持って記念撮影を行いました。教室の黒板がうまってしまうほどの大きさになりました。描いた絵が写真にとられ、小さくなってしまったのが残念そうでしたが、調べたことや考えたことが形になり、感動していました。”自分たちはやったんだ！”という達成感でいっぱいの笑顔でした。

Houston Green Map is getting ready to Launch! Save the Date - Friday, March 28th, 2008!
Stay tuned for more updates.
Meanwhile, feel free to add comments to this blog, with the hope that it becomes an interactive tool as we will move towards the 2nd Edition.

Thanks to everyone that contributed to this initial and very important step.

Filo Castore

Green Map System has promoted inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world since 1995, using mapmaking as our medium. Over 450 locally-led map projects in 50 countries have successfully published 335 Green Maps, used by millions to connect with green living, nature, social and cultural resources near home and while traveling. While all use Green Map Icons to highlight both positive and challenging sites, each powerful guide is unique.

Now, we're taking our inclusiveness mission the next step by developing an open interactive Green Mapmaking tool that will help people worldwide quickly share their own selection of sustainability sites, pathways and resources online. Merging local knowledge and our freshly updated iconography with a Google Map, the resulting interactive Green Maps will be viewable from our own and many other websites, starting in mid-2008. With open commentary, green ratings, multimedia elements, 'impacts index', mobile access, onsite markers and more, everyone will be able to get involved. read more »

Today, two of our group members went to the New City Library, NY, and participated in a small Environmental meeting. We were able to present our project and give information about Green Maps in general, and also listen to a presentation by Clean Air NY and to Keep Rockland Beautiful and their activities.

We got a lot of positive feedback and ideas for future work (always good to share your to-do list with people!:) and even got two much needed new members (now we are 5!).

More presentations are coming up in the future, for example a town comprehensive plan board and the county Environmental Management Committee. The local governments are so interested and seemingly happy to learn what we are doing!read more »

グリーンマップジャパンが日本のニュースサイト「INTERNET Watch」で紹介されています。
同サイトは、インターネット関連の記事を掲載している日刊のニュースサイトで、その中で、地図サイトやデジタル地図など、地図を切り口とした連載記事「趣味のインターネット地図ウォッチ」というコーナーで紹介されています。

http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/static/column/chizu/2008/02/28/

Titan Greens, an online show hosted by Liza de Guia, is a resource to inform and entertain on environmentalism issues. In the second piece of this 2-minute video, GreenMap.org is profiled as one of the coolest website for eco-minded people.read more »

２月２０日（水）
学校内に地図を掲示することになりました。子どもたちが思いを伝える第一歩となります。ただ、まだ学習は継続中なので、すべてを掲示することができないことと、思いがたくさんあって全てを掲示するだけのスペースがないのが残念です。
島田の問題点と解決策をもとにポスター作りを行いました。解決策の中にエネルギーの使用を減らすというものがありました。不思議なことにガスを使わないようにするというものがありました。read more »

２月１９日
「校区を調査して、ここは環境がよくないと思ったところはありますか？」という私の問いかけに、子どもたちは「ある！」とどんどん意見をあげてました。しかし、「それでは、どうしたらそこの環境はよくなるのかな？」という問いかけには、なかなかはぎれのいい意見がでません。クラス全体ではなく、班単位で話し合ってもらいました。するとかなりの意見が出ています。リーダーに発表してもらいながら、よくない環境の解決策のところを２色に色分けしながら板書していきました。なぜ、先生は２つに色分けしているんだろう？？？このことに早く気がついた子どもは、自分の考えた解決策にさっそく線を引き始めました。自分たちでできること、大人の協力が必要なこと、この２つに大きく分けてたのです。気がつかなかった子も班の子がread more »

See English below Japanese.

『東京自転車グリーンマップ』が、環境省主催の「ストップ温暖化大作戦」全国大会にて「モーダルシフト賞」を受賞しました！！

全国大会では、全国47都道府県から選ばれた温暖化防止の取り組み（一品）が東京に大集合しました。『東京自転車グリーンマップ』を除くその他のグランプリ受賞プロジェクトは、全て市町村やそれに関連した組織が主導するもので、『東京自転車グリーンマップ』はその中で唯一のNPO主導によるプロジェクトでした。read more »

We're very pleased to post the first chart of the freshly updated Green Map Icons! It's been a wonderful process, thanks to all involved, especially our great designer Risa Ishikawa and the many Green Mapmakers around the world who took part.

Green Mapmakers will soon be able to download the font to use locally to make vibrant new editions that carry forward the ideals behind this living lexicon - and share new perceptions of the community's progress toward sustainability with the world.

We'll be adding more about the people, supporters, tools, and some specific outcomes of this update soon. Now please download PDF and enjoy Green Map Icons, Version 3!read more »

２月４日（月）
　先日の”島田のいいところ”の話し合いでは、文を書いたり聞き取ったことをメモする学習になってしまいました。こんなにいいところなんだよというものがお互い伝わってきません。少し発想を変えて違う角度からとりかかるヒントをもちかけることにしました。
　話し合いが始まる前に黒板に私が作ったＰＲチラシをはってみました。「おもしろいね。先生これ何？」と子どもたちが中身を見ています。「みんなは島田のいいところや知ってほしいことをいろいろな人に見てもらいたいでしょう。じゃあ誰が見てもわかりやすくて楽しいものを作ってみようか？」read more »

１１月３０日（水）
　地図へのアイコン貼り付けが終わりました。”まとめる・つたえる”という総合学習の一つのスキルに入っています。話し合いの前に”島田のここはいいな”と思ったことを自分で書き出してみようと声をかけました。一人ひとりの意見を書き出したら、それを班全員で考えます。書き出したわけを班の人に説明し、班の人の意見も聞き、班としてまとめていく活動予定でした。しかし、気になることが出てきました。
「いいなと思ったのは、島田川の河原です。read more »

When we started the process of updating our award-winning Icons, we had no idea it would take 5 years! However, with inclusive participation of Green Mapmakers as a chief concern, we developed several different ways everyone could contribute to this important update, online and in person. And, with our understanding of sustainability in the community sense so well-developed since 1999 (when Version 2 of the Green Map Icons was released), we had to take it step by step, and carefully consider many new aspects of charting green living, nature, social and culture in locales around the world.

We are very pleased with the outcomes, which we can present to you very soon on this website. Today, we'll release the new genre and category names, to give you a hint of how the overall set has been improved. read more »

１１月２４日（木）
　いよいよ地図製作が始まりました。４０枚に及ぶ調査カードを見ながら地図にアイコンを貼っていきます。地図はわざと建物の形や交差点、信号などがすでに印刷してある電子地図を使います。なぜなら、アイコンを貼るときにまわりの環境にも再度確認しながらアイコンを貼ることができるからです。難点はアイコンが目立たないことですが、後で子どもたちが”アイコンがなぜそこに貼られることになったのか”を地図を見ただけで思い出すことになると思います。read more »

１月１６日（水）
２００８年になって最初の校外学習に出かけました。まず子どもたちが最初に見たものは・・・３年２組みんなで製作した１月の学校掲示板でした。今年の抱負を宝船にのせて大海にくりだす。今、製作中のグリーンマップも島田から世界に向けて配信しています。（世界という大海にくりだしています）
　さて、今回の目的はスーパーのリサイクルコーナーの確認とみんなが暗くてとても危ないという場所の偵察です。確かに昼間でもうっそうとして暗く、道が急な坂道になっていて車の確認もできませんでした。read more »

１月９日（水）
七つの班で調査をすすめてきましたが、一つの班につき４０枚の調査カード記入を終了しました。各ポイントを自分の目で確かめ、友だちの意見も聞きながら自分の意見を深めることができました。いよいよ地図の製作にとりかかります。

We've just made a video to promote our entry in the America's Giving competition - please forward it to friends and colleagues, and put it up on your blogs and websites!

And donate $10 today! Only two weeks left...

We've just produced a new video, which celebrates all the Green Maps that were published in 2007. The Wall of Maps in the Green Map office is rapidly filling!

Feel free to share this video on your own blog, Facebook, or MySpace pages!

And remember, there's only two weeks left on the Global Giving Challenge - we're in with a really good chance of winning $50,000 - so please pass it around your friends and networks to encourage people to donate!
More details about the challenge in our blog
You can donate at http://givingchallenge.globalgiving.com/dy/registry/ag.html?regid=899&cmd=prevfund

Welcome to visit, and comment on, our new website. I am updating it still, so I am curious to hear if anyone has a comment?!

Rockland Green Map on the web!

We have added a form for community suggestions to the map, the suggest-a-site pages and have posted flyers in our community to get people to come to our website and learn more.

Special Challenge in January 2008!

We are in the Top 10 in an exciting online giving competition where winning is based on number of unique $10 gifts donated though our special page at America's Giving Challenge in January!

Each donation must come from a different person and a different credit card to count! We can win one of eight $50,000 prizes or one hundred $1,000 prizes, and in any case, all donations of $10 (or of any amount) are ours to keep.read more »

Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (UTP) hosted the Fifth Environmental Festival inviting more than 300 students from public schools to discover the university campus eco-resources. Among the experiential activities, drawing contests, and tree plantings, it included several guided eco-tours through one of the most beautiful botanical gardens of the region that belongs to the campus.

Each participant used the first published Mapa Verde of Colombia, project leaded by the Green Mapmaker Harold Hernandez, Environmental Research Institute, Environmental Sciences Faculty and UTP. The botanical garden eco-tour guides have been using these maps as local sustainability guides to promote environmental awareness to different levels.read more »

United States Department of State Certificate of Appreciation was bestowed on Wendy Brawer for her contribution to the success of its International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) by sharing her time and professional expertise. The emphasis of the program is to increase mutual understanding through communication at the personal and professional levels.

Each year, almost five thousand individuals are invited by U.S. Embassies to the United States to meet American counterparts and to become acquainted with this country. Green Map System's Founding-Director and its diverse staff based in New York City are among the organizations who have welcomed geographically and professionally diverse groups of leaders in government and private sectors.

Green Map® Icons, the heart of the Green Map movement, have been awarded an honorable mention from Eyebeam's Eco-Vis Challenge under the Eco-Icons category.

Eyebeam received 140 applications from all of the world, and awarded one winner and two honorable mentions in the two categories of the challenge (Eco-Icons and Eco-Visualizations). Green Map System award is inclusion in two upcoming exhibitions.

The jurors made their decision based on clarity of thought, design, concept,and execution. The award winners' submitted proposals will be on display January 5-26 (opening reception January 5, 6-8pm) and the fully realized projects will be included in our exhibition opening March 13, 6-8pm.read more »

１２月１２日
校外学習第３弾を行いました。今回は特別支援学級の小林先生ともう一人のスペシャルゲスト１名も加わり探検に校区南側に探検に出かけました。昔に栄えた商店街の中も歩いてまわりましたが、今回のすでにリサーチしてあるポイントは４箇所。この４箇所について詳しくメモを取りました。島田川の川岸にある広場ではたくさんの野菜が育ててあり、みんな驚いていました。

第二次的课程上面，我们大家一起学习了绿地图的icon，感觉很有意思。花了一个多小时，一起学习了125个。越看越觉得这些图标很形象，也越记得清楚了，不过有的英语还不认识哦，看来得要好好的学习英语了。
我们的第三次课程将要进行实地的探访，我们已经将学校划分成了6个版块，每组2-3人进行调查。后天就要出去调查了，期待我们的好消息吧。加油！

１２月６日（金）
島田探検隊の第２弾校外学習を行いました。ここ２，３日で師走らしい寒さになり、防寒着に身をつつんでの出発です。今日は教務の原田先生が一緒に出かけてくださいました。６箇所のポイントでメモをとりましたが、子どもたちからいろいろな声があがりました。「ここからは領家がみえる。」「海が見えてる」「川に夏よりたくさん鳥がいる」気がつくと陽がさすところが暖かく感じるほどまで気温も上がっていましたread more »

Dear Friends,

At Green Map System, we nourish an engaging new form of community media that provides a critically important antidote to the images of human and environmental tragedy that so often fill the media today. Our contribution takes the form of engaging Green Maps that connect everyone with local green living options, nature, social and cultural resources – everything from sustainable energy and mobility options to healthy habitats and restored watersheds to green school environments that transform students’ lives. We offer potent images of people working together for ecological health, climate care, social justice and security across many nations and cultures.read more »

At the San Francisco Green Festival, the second edition of our co-created community mapping book, Mapping our Common Ground, was celebrated at a book signing! Pictured here is the designer, Ken Josephson, speaking with Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director of Coop America and Green Festival co-sponsor.

We're so pleased this new edition is in full color! You can order a copy through our Store or through the Common Ground Community Mapping Project in Canada by clicking here.read more »

In November, the process of updating the Icons went into finalization mode. Designer Risa Ishikawa continued development from Japan, and I went to San Francisco, where Ken Josephson and Maeve Lydon of Victoria and I worked in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge! We're now in the 'home stretch' and will soon post a review set for Mapmakers to talk about locally over the holiday break this month. Many thanks, once again to all who contributed to this process!

2007年12月1日，我们的武汉绿地图项目正式启动了。我们华中农业大学有13个同学加入到了这个项目小组中来，一起努力推动绿地图在武汉地区的发展。针对于目前的状况，我们首先需要的是学习绿地图的一些基本的知识，对其有一定的了解后才能更好的运作。我们相信“磨刀不误砍柴工”，大家齐心协力，加油！
我们初步计划，在这个学期，我们先出一份华中农业大学的绿色生活地图，做一个初步的尝试。绿协加油！

１２月３日（月）
島田探検隊の校外学習第２弾を１２月６日に行います。今回は教務主任の原田先生が同行してくださいます。島田小学校の西側方面に出かけます。前期の総合学習で３回訪れた島田川方面です。あらかじめリサーチ済みの数箇所のチェックポイントの中から現地でのメモポイントを今日の学習中に話合いました。メモをとったりじっくり見るためには安全確保が最優先です。メモポイントの近くには、クラス全員がすわってメモをとれるくらいの安全なスペースを確保できるところを考え選ぶのも、実は子どもたちの勉強の一つです。read more »

See English below Japanese

東京自転車マップがエコジャパンカップでの”ライフスタイル部門・市民が創る環境のまち元気大賞・電通賞”を受賞しました。グッドデザイン賞に引き続きの受賞となります。
受賞に伴い、来る１２月１３日〜１５日に東京ビッグサイトで開催されるエコプロダクツ展にて、東京自転車
グリーンマップがパネル展示されます。１４日には東京自転車マップのプレゼンテーションもあります。その他にも多くの新しいエコアイデアが紹介されますのでお近くのかたは是非足を運んでみて下さい。read more »

１１月２８日（水）
昨日の探検を振り返りながら自分たちでデザインしたカードに気づきを書いていきました。１つのポイントについてグリーンマップのアイコンのどれにあてはまるのか、グループで考え次に再びクラス全体で検討していきます。なかなか時間のかかるカード記入です。思いはあってもなかなか文章表現は難しいのですが、アイコンに置き換えるとスッキリみえてきます。

１１月２７日（火）
曇りではありましたが、晩秋のさわやかな風がふく中グリーンマップ作り探検の第一弾として、校区内北側の散策にでかけました。１時間半という限られた時間内に全てをメモできないため、前日に４箇所の必須ポイントをみんなでしぼりこんでおきました。探検に使うものは児童が考えたシートに少し手を加えたもの、７班に分かれての調査のため地図は７部用意し、デジカメは白石のものを使用しました。安全確保のために特別支援学級担任の小林先生にもついてきていただきました。read more »

Global Green Map – Going Live in 2008!

"“If the best greening resource in the world is just around the corner, but no one knows about it, what good can it do?”
-Yelitza Espinosa, Pereira, Colombia Mapmaker

Project Description

It's an exciting time at Green Map: we've just started work on our latest project - the Global Green Map. GGM is an interactive open world map that will connect people of all backgrounds with local resources and best practices for sustainable living. Scheduled to go live in mid-2008, this multi-lingual Google Map-based compendium will display the full range of green living, nature, social and cultural sites already appearing on hundreds of published Green Maps alongside those contributed by global content partners and the wider public.read more »

为了更好地促进中国大陆地区各地绿地图授权组织的交流，自然之友创办了这份电子报。介绍更多的绿地图精彩故事给大家来分享。

１０月３１日（水）
ブログをご覧になられている皆様、初めまして。
このたびグリーンマップに参加することになった光市立島田小学校３年２組です。市内音楽祭参加の猛練習の中、落ち着いてマップ作りの活動を開始できていなかったのですが、今日は２８名みんなでシンボルマークを考えました。２８のシンボルマークがずらりと黒板にはりだされ、話し合いと投票の結果２つのデザインが最後まで残りました。話し合いがまとまらず、決選は後日となりましたが、みんなの意気込みを感じる話合いでした。

The Tokyo Cycling Green Map was created to encourage development of a bike lane network and safer riding by Urban Ecology Tokyo and volunteers since 2006. The first printed citywide version was published in January 2007. There is also an interactive online edition in Japanese or in English that anyone can add green sites to and use to get involved in creating a better environment for cycling in this metropolis.

We're so pleased to share the news that the Tokyo Cycling Green Map won a GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2007 in the category of Communications - this is the most honorable design award in Japan! read more »

The Youth Green Map project in Pereira, Colombia is sharing with us their final products after a year of collaboration between GMS, the Latin American Hub and Fundación Geovida, the local organization leading this unique effort. We would like to thank the support of Captain Planet Foundation.

El proyecto Juvenil de Mapa Verde en Pereira, Colombia están compartiendo con nosotros sus productos finales después de un año de colaboración entre GMS, el Nodo Latinoamericano y la Fundación Geovida, la cual es la organización local que lidera este esfuerzo único. Deseamos agradecer el apoyo de la Fundación Capitán Planeta.read more »

On Monday October 15, about 60 people, including Mapmakers and Green Map users, new and long-time supporters, staff and visitors from several countries, organizations and backgrounds came to share their views in the first-ever public Green Map Icon Open Studio at Green Map HQ in New York. And, over the last week, nearly 1,000 have come to the digital Open Studio, too! Both the live exhibit and the online Icon Open Studio are awaiting your participation! Please make an appointment to comment in person (click Contact below to email or call to arrange) and/org click here to find more about the online process. Thanks so much!read more »

Green Map Icon Open Studio -
click to see the whole discussion.

In the past, our Icon posters have been available in these formats:

Printed: 4-language color poster (shown here)

Digital Template: 2 page PDF, downloadable in 14 languages here, ideal for printing locally.

KeyMap for Users: a text document with the keystrokes to help Mapmakers select the Icons they need quickly

Now with Version 3 of the Green Map Icons nearing the end of their development cycle, we wonder what people want and will use for the next poster.
(Note that Version 3 will have both a standard and extended set of Green Map Icons, so a completely new design is needed).read more »

October 2007 at Green Map System

Green Map System is starting the autumn on a high note! We’re opening our doors so you can come and help us make important decisions about the world’s only global symbol system for maps, in person or online! We’re also releasing great new education tools and an updated edition of our Compost Green Map of Manhattan, too.

One Planet - One Visual Languageread more »

During the week of September 24th, Pereira's Young Mapmakers launched to their communities the 'Mobile Green Maps'. On these days, the team leaders from Fundación Geovida, teachers and students celebrated together with music, cultural activities and Green Map Tours.

Youth from low-income communities are becoming engaged in issues related to cartography; food security, waste management; social responsibility and critical assessment; design and communications; arts and painting; etc.

The young leaders shared with their peers and neighbors their findings. This project is supported by Captain Planet Foundation. Now they are planning a local meeting in a public university to gather the three k-12 schools involved in this initiative.read more »

We are on our way with data collecting and organizing the data! The latest update includes a temporary rockland green map website where we link to our new wiki page. A wiki page enables anyone to edit the site and to leave comments and we hope the members of our community will find this an easy way to suggest sites to the rockland green map.

Since this summer we are also working together with the local organization Keep Rockland Beautiful - a collaboration that has already led to many great ideas and needed feedback.read more »

At this time of the year we appreciate having extra hands with volunteers and interns. We are welcoming Courtney Wolf, Yelena Zolotorevskaya and Hsiao-ping Huang to our team, shown here with Wendy Brawer, Risa Isahikawa and myself, Carlos Martinez. There'a a diversity of skills from design to fundraising to tool development, complementing the needs of the global program.

Currently, on the local front, we're finalizing the 6 "Energy and Environmental Exploration" K-12 Modules (beta edition)- and preparing to test in New York - GreenAppleMap.org/page/2008 has an introduction. The Green Apple Map project is updating its Compost Map, too, and preparing to overhaul its website,... Globally, the Green Map Icon (Version 3) final discussion is soon to open to the public, and this week, check out all the Green Maps created in Taiwan being added to this website.read more »

Public schools in Pereira, Colombia, are developing “mobile Green Map murals” and are planning to distribute 5,000 printed copies of their campuses and surrounding neighborhoods. Green Maps, the tangible products of this process will be a long-lasting contribution and a message of inspiration in different levels: the government and policy makers are paying attention to the youth demands, the Mapmakers involved in this project are youth mentors passing on their knowledge and methodologies locally, and other communities around the planet have been motivated to develop and replicate more projects like this.read more »

Summer 2007 Update

It’s been a year of renewal at Green Map System! From our website to our mission statement to our tools and blog, you’ll find a fresh new look, more in-depth content and, as always, the inventive engagement of Green Map projects going strong in over 400 places in 50 countries. Take part in this exciting phase of expansion and reinvention!

One Planet - One Visual Languageread more »

The Botanical Garden of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in Colombia, was distinguished as "Environmental Project 2006" by the local government.

The City Council of Pereira recognized this important project for its contribution to the environmental education.

This biodiverse garden was included in the UTP's Green Map, a university campus project located in the traditional coffee growing ecoregion of Colombia.

Visit the profile here.

El Jardín Botánico de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira en Colombia fue distinguido como "Proyecto Ambiental 2006" por el gobierno local.read more »

At Green Map, we're usually happy to be connected to a big event, such as the EXPO in Aichi Japan in 2005. We feel Green Map helps the event become greener and increases the number of people involved both locally and globally.

Most recently, the US's biggest (and edgiest) arts festival, Burning Man, got started on a Green Map to chart the remarkable convergences of eco and experimental/experiential art at the end of August each year. At BurningMan.com, they say: read more »

As Green Map's director, I am always happy to share the good news about our movement with everyone. Recently, I was interviewed by Cornell University for its eClips project by Deborah Streeter - find this series of clips with transcripts here:

Wendy on eClips

(You might like to check the list of other interviews on the left, there's some amazing people to learn from!)

Then, Sharon-Ann Gooden from regional RNN TV taped us here at Green Map in NYC and captured the essence of our global impact in 2 minutes! (note you need WMP 7 to view this).read more »

Ins & Outs Magazine is publishing their first-ever green issue. We are so pleased to be featured on the homepage of their website! The story covers both global and local NYC Green Maps.

Ins & Outs magazine is focused on Long Island City, an especially cultural part of NYC in Queens. Their subscribers will recieve a copy of our energy-themed Powerful Green Map, and learn about great ways to live green in the city. Click the link to find out more about